WAS HE NEGRO, MEXICAN OR INDIAN? ~ Undertakers Puzzled by Unidentified Man.

July 12, 1908

WAS HE NEGRO, MEXICAN OR INDIAN?

Undertakers Puzzled by

Unidentified Man.

The body of an unidentified man was picked up on the tracks of the Belt Line near Wyoming street, Friday night. Thinking that the body was that of a negro the railroad employes sent the body to Countee Bros., negro undertakers, who embalmed it. Dr. O. H. Parker was called to view the body and pronounced it that of a Mexican. He therefore ordered it removed to the undertaking rooms of Eylar Bros., at Fourteenth and Main streets. It is now thought that the body is that of an Indian. It is large limbed and possesses all of the charactaristics of that race.